Use cases
Everywhere that asks for a number.
A Ziptie number is not for hiding. It is for the forty ordinary places that need to reach you today and should not be able to reach you forever.
Shopping & delivery apps
- The leak
- Every order shares your number with a warehouse, a logistics partner and a rider. One of them sells it.
- With Ziptie
- Give them your Ziptie number. OTPs and delivery updates arrive sorted by app; the rider rings you inside Ziptie, or on your real phone only if you allow that app through.
Gym, clinic & pharmacy signups
- The leak
- Front-desk forms end up in spreadsheets and loyalty programmes you never agreed to.
- With Ziptie
- Sign up with Ziptie. Renewal reminders and appointment texts still reach you. If the loan calls start the week after, the 'Where you have used it' list tells you who leaked.
Marketplace listings
- The leak
- Selling a sofa on OLX means publishing your number to anyone who taps it — including scrapers.
- With Ziptie
- List with your Ziptie number. Buyers can call you in the app. When the sofa is gone, burn the number and the scrapers are left calling nobody.
Broadband, gas & utility installs
- The leak
- The installer saves your number in his personal phone, next to three hundred other customers.
- With Ziptie
- Hand over Ziptie. Forward just that service to your real phone for the afternoon of the install, then switch it back off.
Cab & travel bookings
- The leak
- Drivers, hotels and aggregators all keep a copy of your number long after the trip.
- With Ziptie
- Book with Ziptie. Driver calls ring in the app; booking confirmations are filed under the service. Nothing follows you home.
Anything that asks 'just for verification'
- The leak
- Wi-Fi portals, event registrations, contest entries, restaurant waitlists — each one is a leak waiting to happen.
- With Ziptie
- Ziptie is the number you give when you would rather not give one. The OTP arrives in four seconds, and you have given away nothing that matters.
And the one thing it is not for.
Ziptie numbers cannot make calls or send texts. They exist to receive. That keeps the number useless for anyone wanting to hide behind it, and keeps it welcome at the banks and apps that reject burner lines.
Private beta · India
Want to try it first?
We are letting a small group of people in India test Ziptie before launch. Tell us how you would use it and we will email you if you are picked.